There is no glory in the name of Jezebel, or Cleopatra, or Catherine de' Medici, brilliant and fascinating as were those queens; but there is glory in the memory of Héloïse.

" Such was that brilliant but unsound man, with learning, fame, personal beauty, fascinating eloquence, dialectical acumen, aristocratic manners, and transcendent wit, who encountered at thirty-eight the most beautiful, gracious, accomplished, generous, and ardent woman that adorned that time,only eighteen, thirsting for knowledge, craving for sympathy, and intensely idolatrous of intellectual excellence.

She wanted to be fascinating; but the real secret of her beauty, in this case, was the whim that was carrying her away.

In mixed societies he was silent; but with a few select spirits around him, and especially after the "good wine did the good office" of banishing his bashfulness and taciturnity, he became the most delightful and fascinating of conversers.

It is a fascinating history to read even now, with its curious combination of accurate scholarship and immense credulity.

He had the sinister charm of a fallen archangel, and he fixed on Antoinette a wild, fascinating glance, that said: "What do my name, my deceptions and the rest, matter to you?

The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism, supported by the most terrible sanctions, and the strangely fascinating desire of having some visible and tangible object of adoration.

Hume, from whose fascinating narrative the great mass of the reading public are still contented to take their opinions, hated religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion, and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dexterity of an advocate while affecting the impartiality of a judge.

The most fascinating character in "Wilhelm Meister"the wonder and delight of the readeris Mignon, the child-woman,a pure creation of Goethe's genius, without a prototype in literature.

Sitting opposite her adored Miss Amesbury on a rustic bench covered with a bright Indian blanket and listening to the fascinating conversation of this much traveled, older woman, the voice of conscience grew fainter and nearly ceased tormenting Agony altogether, and she gave herself up wholly to the enjoyment of the moment.

At last she had been invited up on Miss Amesbury's fascinating little balcony.

The stories that my girl made up were so fascinating that the others forgot the cold and the raw winds whistling about the house and listened spellbound until she had finished.

To be famous and fascinating like Miss Amesbury, this was the secret ambition that filled her restless soul.

This is a fascinating life for you, but you cannot afford to lose this valuable time.

Marjorie came up to Tom and presented him with a paper, and she was going to give one to me, but my little friend stopped her, 'No, no, Marjorie,' he said in his most fascinating tones, 'let me give one to my own Mr. Jack.

Who could resist the pleading little face, and the pretty, fascinating voice of that child?

It was at the end of September, and was one of those gloriously brilliant days which we get in the early autumn, when the sky is cloudless, when the air is fresh and clear, and when the autumnal tints on trees, hedges, ferns and brambles make the landscape gorgeous and extremely beautiful and fascinating.

They then fell to in earnest and after weeks and months of investigation declared that a fish was the most fascinating of studies.

Between Lord Holland and Sydney Smith the most cordial friendship existed; and the eccentric and fascinating Lady Holland was his constant correspondent.

Mr. Smithson is not an Adonis, nor are his manners particularly fascinating.' 'My child how fresh you are!

Do you suppose it is the handsome men or the fascinating men for whom women break their hearts in society?

We lose all the quaint semiconscious touches of character which make the original so fascinating; and Boswell's absurdities become less amusing when we are able to forget for an instant that the perpetrator is also the narrator.

He had left behind on the path of life another fascinating vision.

This is a new circumstance in the biography of one of our most fascinating English writers, whether in prose or verse.

On the stage most of the scenes are exceedingly fascinating and effective.